The Health Menace Inside Your Sandwich
Live MintNew York City is eliminating processed meats from the meals it serves in public schools, hospitals and via other programs by 2025. “For decades, fathers and mothers have been sending children to school with low-fat chicken, turkey deli meat thinking they were doing good," says Dariush Mozaffarian, a cardiologist and professor of nutrition and medicine at Tufts University who has studied the health risks of processed meats. Mr. DuBois points to more people working and cooking from home, the popularity of protein foods and processed meats’ “taste and easy accessibility" as reasons for their popularity. Meat less The World Health Organization plans to release new recommendations for limits on the consumption of processed meats by 2025, says Francesco Branca, director, department of nutrition and food safety at the WHO. Dr. Mozaffarian at Tufts says that since the health risks of processed meats are largely created during manufacturing—the unprocessed turkey, pork and beef don’t have the same negative health impacts—the industry should be able to create healthier products.
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